[OS X TeX] typesetting time increases greatly with microtype?

[Maarten Sneep]

On 17 okt 2004, at 20:23, Gary L. Gray wrote:

> I noticed that typesetting times seemed to have increased after 
> turning on microtype in a long manuscript I am writing. So, I did a 
> quick test and found that the typesetting time for couple of sections 
> are:
>
> without microtype: 16s
> with microtype: 25s
>
> Is this to be expected? Do I have something configured incorrectly? I 
> am using it via:

I think so, since expanded fonts are created on the fly. Could you try 
with

     \usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=false]{microtype}

and time that?

I thinks for most texts, this is actually preferred, but that might be 
a presonal preference.

Maarten

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